[Verse 1:]
Tryna stay afloat
Tryna get a boat
Tryna get a rope
Got little hope in my old backpack
Look back in the back of the strap just broke
Need new ones but my pocket's broke
How do I cope?
Should've smoked d** to the point where you can't see my eyes anymore
So low I don't like to get high anymore
Never really did
Want new Jays, want new kicks
Don't want bills, want raw s**
Don't want kids, f** choice awards
I want grammies, b**h
Said I'd be the dopest, and I meant it
Like my women like my Vans, I only rock authentics
I'm feeling blimpish with a blemish
Sounds like p**y's been diminished, hope her head game's augmented
And it's apparent that my hair's not be divorced
My college courses, I'll stop tryna make my parents happy
'Cause it's my life, and I'm finished
And it's my knife if I end it
Wit' a hide-life and a Guinness
I don't need much but a witness, tell my story for a legacy
This ocean's never backstroke, I think it's often better we
[Chorus:]
Tread water, yeah
Keep on floating
Where do we go?
Yeah, I think we're sinking slow
Hey, now if you panic for what you don't need, inertia
How do you plan to keep on floating
Where do we go?
Yeah, I think we're sinking slow
[Verse 2:]
It's like, it's like, it's like
Oh my god what were you telling her
New phone plans and cellulars
We need new gods, new iPods, you sell bullsh** I can smell you sir
Whatever you say, we don't need state that
New Ferrari's and Maybach's
Rent it first, have to reimburse, then rap about it
Get paid back, get paid back
New Ferrari's and Maybach's
Rent it first, have to reimburse, then rap about it
Get paid back, laugh about it get paid back
Figure 4 n***as on my 8 flap
They're makin' a k**ing of n***as that's k**ing
I'm thinking that we should go half on the prison
Am I acting my age? You acting like slaves
Don't follow religions I bottle prescriptions
And acronysims I act on my visions
Just do me and hope that my past is forgiven
If plan B's how we're living
Does it count as redemption for people who move to New York with ambition and stay but settle with retail positions
If I get a degree I need a masters too
If I take a girl out, gotta pay for her food
If she don't wanna f**, couldn't pay for her mood
If she don't wanna s**, couldn't stay with her dude
Tryna stay afloat
Tryna get a boat
Tryna get a rope
Got little hope
Got little hope in my old backpack
Look back in the back of the strap just broke
Back-back feet on the [?]
Mufasa a multifaceting quotes
How do you stop a terrorist who don't terrorize where his parents lived
We drivin' and text, denying our s**
Tryna, we can't deny what's next
Complain, but don't deny our checks
Whose black with money if not enough sent to the IRS who don't [?]
I fire on [?]
With hopes to spark to fight and [?]
To the left, to the left
Allegiance the flags
Indian land giving n***as and f*gs no little more freedom, that comes with a tag
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